The Stages of Being an Artist // my complete art journey!
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- Hey everyone! In this video I outline all the stages I've went through over my life of being an artist and realizing that it's what I want to do with my life. I hope you can relate to some of these stages! Please share your own stages in the comments, it would be really cool to read :)
I will update this video again in a few years!
Old video • Stages of Being an Art...
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Hey everyone! This video took so much longer to make compared to my usual content. I basically made seven illustrations just for this video! I also might make some of them prints in the future... we'll see! Thanks for watching
I was just thinking the same thing!(that this had to have taken so much longer) (do you say that) also I have just discovered your channel when you faced this period of "burnout" and i was so afraid you stopped yt!
Please make them into prints or stickers! The birbs are SO CUTE!
I think the hardest part about self-employment is taking breaks. You get in the habit of drawing, so you actually feel weird on a day when you don't draw at all. I actually feel anxious on days when I have no project to work on, so I'm constantly working on something a little everyday. Maybe that's a good thing, I never do all-nighters anymore, but also there hasn't gone a day in the past few years when I haven't drawn something.
This process you've gone through with drawing in your life is very cool because it's really true for art people, especially me😁! Also love the bird drawings representing you 🐦💛
Thanks so much, I love birds!
@@JelArts same💙🐦
As far as taking time off when self employed, I've found it helps to pick a number of days or hours for yourself and then it doesn't matter what day you take that time as long as you give yourself that time.
This video reminded me of when art was just for fun. I’ve been taking a long break from drawing since I’ve been busy with homework, and quite honestly, I haven’t liked the last few drawings I made. This video helped me remember the joy of art. Thank you for that
I loved hearing about your art journey! Here's mine for anyone interested:
I've always been creative, but I didn't really start drawing until I was towards the end of elementary school and I got my first sketchbook. In middle school I would doodle animals and made up creatures in my sketchbook and any paper I could get my hands on. When I was a highschool freshman I wanted to get more serious about my art so I started using references. After a year of trying to copy photos, I started learning anatomy. I've never seen myself improve so quickly in anything. Currently I'm 17 and still a long way from where I want to be but I've come SOO far in 3 years and I'm so proud of myself.
Its so fun hearing the art experiences of other people! Thank you for sharing.
This was an awesome video, and your birds on the thumbnail really drew me in! You went all out with all of them!!
I'm not self-employed but I work as a graphic designer from home a lot so my work schedule is really flexible- I definitely feel the guilt when I work on a weekend or rest on a weekday and am desperately trying to give myself some grace in that area. Somehow I'm the world's worst workaholic and a massive slacker all at once, so maybe just recognizing that there are natural ebbs and flows to focus and being able to break up the work week is actually really refreshing and working with that instead of against it is the best move for me
I'm excited to come back in five years and hear what else you've learned!
I totally feel you about taking breaks/working too much, it's always a struggle to strike a balance and know what's best for yourself in the long run! Also thank you, I had lots of fun drawing them :)
I am so happy I found your channel 4 years ago seeing your art grow along side you and motivating me to keep working on my own projects because there's aways room to grow and I think I'll always return to your channel to see where you are as the future comes
i like watching u draw urself as a bird.
i have the same stages as you but i stopped at stage 2/3
I relate to the focussing on two things at the same time. Somtimes it's very hard to balance work and school- at work they expect me to have all the room in my head to think creatively about how to make the company and our department better, but I just want to focus my brain on my studies. That's aside from friends and family that expect you to spend time with them, eventhough you're so busy. I'm excited to start my working life at a job that I love and have studied for. It will take 4 more years though, since I just got accepted to university. I really want to become a psychologist, so it's gonna be worth it in the end! Wish me luck 🍀
Your art is so pure and warm
I LOVE ALL THOSE BIRD DOODLES!!
Please make more! 💙
Any tips on starting a youtube channel? I want a decent camera. I barely have people to talk to. And I'd love to just record myself doing college homework, and see how that goes for fun....that would also help me practice my English pronunciation too.
Been a follower since 2016 or 2017 btw, I'm so proud of your improvement! :3
So helpful and I can relate !! Thank you for this, your speed processes were mesmerising to watch too !!
THOSE BIRDIES ARE SO FREAKING CUTE
I Love the video! the drawings are really sweet and heart-warming, they made me dive into the story, thank you :)
This is amazing it’s great look back on all the years and see where u have grown Unfortunately for me I missed stage 2 and maybe a bit of 3 bc I just stopped doing art completely bc I just got overwhelmed with everything and my parents were pushing me too hard and not letting me take it at my own pace but I took it back up just before lockdown happened and I started to feel better like I had more freedom to express myself without the constant feeling of someone watching over my shoulder.
Thanks to anyone who read this and if u want to check out my art pls let me know
i think overall you had it better than the average artist. im 25 took art seriously till i was 22 i have just made like a couple bucks in comms , its hard when you realize what you want to do way later in life
Such beautiful illustrations! And the colors are so vibrant!
yes, never look too much or too closely at social media numbers, that alone could give you burnout
The birbs look so cuuuute and I agree a lot in the struggle when finding solace in our homes esp during lockdown where weekdays and weekends get mixed up. Looking forward in the next years of your art career!
I enjoyed this so much thank you!
really cool!
i kind of swapped from becomming an artist over to the whole design bubble about 4-5 years ago! long story short i am at my last year of a graphic design apprentice ship (takes 4 years after graduating artschool) which is centered in brand identity, packaging and for me still illustrations, graphical animations ect. im super happy and organised my first exhibition just recently.
thats my story summed up super quick for u :)
I really enjoy this video and thank you fro sharing your journey with us. I just graduated art school as well and I decide to go through a different path. I decided to join the industry as a concept artist and is working well for me. I admire that you are able to do your own work as a career and have the dicipline and mental fortitude to power through. As soon as I graduated I felt an existential crisis that stopped me from doing and enjoying art. However once I started working as a concept artist I felt that I was able to enjoy my art again.
Anyways, great video and will look forward of your art journey continuing on.
This video was super insightful you got my sub:)
Rest is not given the credit it deserves. I think you're onto something when you say slowing down makes you more efficient. You absolutely need and deserve to rest in order to enjoy the fruits of your labour.
And don't be to caught up in figuring it all out - I've been getting by for years, merely cleverly disguised as a responsible adult only when absolutely necessary. 😄
our tip isnt the best or really even a tip... but as an overworked artist who feels guilty about not working and also guilty about working on our weekends:
we just smoke weed to calm down and let us just do it
it helped us stop caring and just continue doing what we wanna do (even if its working bc we just wanna)
I wanna be able to post those cute sketchy but colored arts and finished arts and animatics and animations and stuff. But I’ve got a long way to go 😅
The thing for me is I feel like it’ll take a really long time to finish a piece so then I just don’t want to do the art, but what I want, the end product, does take time and practice, so no matter what I’ve gotta practice to make my dreams reality. There so much stuff I wanna make art for but it’s kinda just all in my head at the moment. I started a sketch book near the end of last year and have made a bit of progress (mostly cuz highschool doesn’t allow me enough time for drawing). I hope I can really make it to where I want to be one day! Wish me luck and Good luck everyone!
This video is amazing, thank you very much for making it.
I don't know if this is something you are aiming for, but this video would form a great starting point for a children's book.
As someone who missed the art boat as a kid myself, and who is now raising a marvelously creative child, I've noticed many children's books about art are actually art history books that talk mainly about fine arts and the ideas behind art movements.
They don't talk about doing art as a hobby or working in other types of art jobs (like illustrators).
And they especially don't talk about the aspects most artists enjoy about art: the actual drawing and painting and making aspects, instead focusing on the ideas behind them.
It's taken me so long to realize that most artists mostly enjoy creating art, not thinking of concepts or ideas or doing something super innovative.
Everyone can draw, even if they don't have ideas of their own and can't create something that looks professional right away (or ever).
No wonder I always assumed I wouldn't be able to do it, nor even enjoy it. And I was so wrong. And I've noticed the same is true of many other people.
Wouldn't it be great for children (and adults) to come across a book talking about the joys of making art, the journeys art could take us on, and the very human challenges we may face on the way and how to approach them? Even better if that book is filled with charming vibrant art like yours.
Fantastic video! I always enjoy the content you create, and this video was very inspiring to me. Hope you enjoy the rest of ur day
Thanks so much! enjoy your day too :)
Early as well! Love your videos!
Thank you! :)
what a inspiring and beautiful video, thank you so much!
I'm glad you enjoyed!
All the little birds so cute !!!!
Hi!
So nice to hear these stages and opinions. Best of luck.
I'm mostly burnt out.
I can relate to the first few stages as ones I experienced, but then I had a parent die and for a long time I stopped doing art beyond doodling now and again. In the last year or so I've gotten back into it as a hobby and that's likely where it will remain which I've come to accept as absolutely fine.
Hi! Would you consider doing tutorials about different things, e.g. How to add shadows and highlights, how to do this and that, or are tutorials something you're not really interested in making?
I used to do tutorials, but I don't think it's the kind of content I enjoy making. I'd rather share my process and offer tips along the way than get too specific. I hope this makes sense!
Well i feel kinda relate with always thinking of work doing art, bc i enjoy it and for me I started with the Inktober and now i just gonna start to study a as. degree in animation. But my tips for the plataform it's have a balance abt following trends and creating freedom, so yeah nice video uwu 💗
Lovely video! So interesting to hear your thoughts and your experiences! Your art is so inspirational to me! 🌼
Can I ask what you use to capture drawing in procreate? (if it is anything other than the built in screen recorder in the Ipad)
Perfect🌟
HI there Jel. I can identify with your guilt about not working when you think you should be. I am a full time carer for my wife-we are both retired. However, my mind is still locked into working during the week n relaxing at the weekends but when your are retired "there are no weekends". The working week used to be typically 40 hours. Why not decide how many hours a week you want to work and record the hours you do work, when you reach your figure, then stop. Go to a different room-get away from your work for a while. Don't "take the work home" or you won't get your break. The self discipline that got you to be where you are now needs to be employed to maintain your work/life balance. Hope this helps. Best wishes to your progress.
I went through art school too and I related to your whole journey! It’s so cool to see other artists journeys ☺️ I started TH-cam in the pandemic in the final stages of graduating and making my portfolio and I’m hoping to someday grow enough to be monetized! Someday I hope to be able to work less at my 2 jobs and focus more on my art and creating a business with it and doing Artist alleys and fun stuff like that! Building an audience who love what I create as much as I do is a huge goal of mine. Everyone’s journey is different and growing on social media is hard sometimes! I have been posting every Friday for a couple years now on TH-cam and it can be discouraging sometimes to not see a lot of growth for all this time. I just have to remind myself that it’s a slow grind and to try and enjoy the process while I am still small and create those relationships with the audience I do have. Thank you for sharing and I’m excited to see you grow more and more! 💕
Hi, loved this! You built so much independently. I am in a rush process at the moment, but I am also in the beginning. I am not trying to be illustrator, but I am trying to be a writer. I am also inviting published illustrators, illustrating writers for a chat. You can come by and if you ever work with books would love to have you visit as well ❤ Love your work and birdies in this video.
Thanks for sharing!
I've been playing around with work days, I tend to get really good results on Sunday, normally like to take a weekday off. Some days your body just needs a break & you can't always predict which day that's going to be. Also something I didn't notice when working for someone else is just how fatigued I get during PMS. All last year I was getting annoyed at these slow weeks until I realized it was PMS 🤦 Like oh no it's not cool to be beating myself up over a normal cycle.
For social media, I wasn't getting shown for so long, I thought maybe it's my quality or what I'm working on? But then reels I thought were low quality were getting lots of views. I started experimenting by deleting videos that got like 10 or less views and reposting 2 days later & they were getting 100s of views. It seems like Instagram won't show my videos if I upload daily? Might be hashtags or the audio I'm still trying to figure out what's going on 😢 but I'm feeling a lot better now knowing it's not the content 😅
art in college is resentment from going into film editing and waiting hours for stuff to render I did enjoy photography with a 35 mm wish I can find a photo enlarger. College opened up loads of ideas of stuff for multimedia though
It always seems like my mom has a negative comment to make half the time about art, saying if I were to do it full time I wont have a retirement that a supposed regular job would give. :I
as an adult trying to get into drawing and art and never had the chance to enjoy art as a kid, i'm currently on stage 4 with the combination of stages 2 and 3...😬
Heeey! Your videos are amazing. I am an artist who is trying to realize his own way to draw, so yours are helpful. Your birds are so nice… also i have question. What type of brush do you use? Thanks for answer. Best wishes from Ukraine!
hey, maybe take a look at Light Brush? it's a good web painting application.
I’m in my middle School now u can see my art as my Picture as my profile :)
I would love there stages into stickers they are cute
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woohoo early!
I really want to get back into a graphic career, but other work has to come first. I also don’t like the burn out phase and self doubt because I feel I have lost my skill. Am I Too critical?
Take care and enjoy the great career opportunities that social media provides to kids these days. Looks like you just provided another pile of stickers!
Early bird here!
Hey, I was just wondering if you wil eventually be selling prints of the pieces made in this video?
In my next shop update I will have some!
How did you know you wanted to become an artist? See I’m getting to the point that I should start thinking about my future and steering my actions know towards that and I love art I draw everyday but I’m scared that if I decide to keep working on my art especially and get into the workforce as an artist it won’t pay me back enough. Like if I decided to become a scientist I’d work especially hard in science and read and research all I could (of course I’d keep my grades all up as well) like is it just me? Everyone seems so sure of what they want or people are so sure they want to become an artist. Maybe I’m just weird? I need to stop worrying, right? But I can’t because if I decide to pay for college and become an artist and I’m unable to take care and pay for myself what would I do? Being an art school graduate wouldn’t look super impressive on a resume that doesn’t have anything to do with the art. I will no longer rant, sorry 😂
Sadly I’m in grade 7 and I can’t draw anymore because I have to do work and I’m stuck with the fear of failure
Im in art graduate limbo right now 😅
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What should I do if I can't afford art school?
You don't need to go to art school to have a career in art! I chose this option since I wasn't too sure how to move forward with my art without something forcing me to go out of my comfort zone. It also helped me grow a bit more as a person during those four years - but it's definitely expensive. I was lucky enough to pay for it with TH-cam revenue. There's lots of resources online to teach you how to draw, and ultimately, it's more about you and the dedication you put into your craft rather than your school or degree that determines how much you improve your art/where you end up in your career! Lots of famous artists never went to art school, It's really all in your own hands! (in my opinion!)
Why did you decide to go for Illustration and not for something more classical in art school?
Illustration relates more to the kind of art I want to create!
@@JelArts you seem to have a natural talent for it too. It's impressive that you knew what you wanted to do so young. I think you'll make great books for kids
becoming a burnt out art student rn lol